Metacognitive Moves System

Build Metacognitive Infrastructure Across Your Institution

Staff resources that establish shared language, make student thinking visible in real time, and align practice across every role — so the system works as a system.

Two access tiers: open resources available now, and licensed resources included with institutional partnership.

See How It All Connects

These staff resources are designed to work alongside the student-facing tools. See how each resource supports students at different stages of their academic journey — and how the full system fits together.

Student-Facing
The Student Tools
Five interactive tools for planning, preparing, reflecting, and goal-setting. Each includes a practical implementation guide for facilitators— from classrooms to coaching conversations.
Strategic View
The Student Journey Matrix
How every tool maps across six stages of the academic experience and the student learning and success ecosystem
Open Access

Free for Practitioners. No Account Required.

These two resources are available to any educator, advisor, tutor, or coach — right now, at no cost. They establish the conceptual foundation and real-time facilitation language that make every other part of the system more effective.

Open Access

Metacognitive Foundations

The conceptual grounding for the entire system. Establishes a shared understanding of the four core metacognitive phases — Planning, Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reflecting — giving your team the common language that makes practice consistent and recognizable across every role and context.

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Best For

Orienting and onboarding new staff
Faculty and staff professional development
Creating shared vocabulary across roles
First-time use of any tool in the system
Building a consistent learning culture
Open Access

The Metacognitive Wheel

An interactive tool built around 21 metacognitive moves across the four phases. Designed not as a test but as a mirror — it makes student thinking visible during authentic academic work, giving facilitators and learners a shared way to identify and name metacognitive moves as they happen.

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Best For

Real-time tutoring and coaching conversations
Study sessions and project work
Diagnosing metacognitive breakdowns before and after exams
Strengthening self-regulation across contexts
Low-barrier entry into metacognitive practice
Included with Institutional Licensing

Deeper Infrastructure for Licensed Partners.

These three resources are included with institutional licensing. They extend the system into observable growth, implementation alignment, and transferable skill development — giving your institution the tools to make metacognitive development trackable, coherent, and institution-wide.

Institutional License

The Metacognitive Crosswalk

An implementation guide that maps each B Optimal student tool to the four metacognitive phases. For practitioners, it provides coaching prompts, facilitation tips, and signs to look for at each phase. At the systems level, it creates coherence — giving faculty, tutors, and advisors shared language so they can build on each other's work rather than operating in silos.

Exclusively available to licensed B Optimal partner institutions. Contact us to learn about licensing options and receive access.

Best For

Mapping tool deployment to curriculum milestones
Coordinating implementation across FYE, advising, and tutoring
Preventing fragmented or siloed tool adoption
Live coaching and program planning conversations
Scaling from pilot success to institutional infrastructure
Institutional License

Recognizing Metacognitive Growth

Makes metacognitive development visible for students, practitioners, and institutions. Identifies what growth actually looks like in practice — giving your team observable signals to recognize when learners are deepening their metacognitive capacity and moving beyond surface-level reflection into genuine self-regulation. Introduces four lenses for identifying change over time: awareness, learning, behavior, and academic outcomes.

Available for non-commercial use in institutions of higher education. Request institutional access to receive this resource.

Best For

Recognizing developmental signals in student conversations
Connecting observable behaviors to program-level evidence
Moving beyond grades as the only measure of growth
Staff development and reflective practice
Institutional reporting on metacognitive outcomes
Institutional License

Skills in Action Competency Framework

A research-backed, behavior-based competency framework of 11 skills essential for college learners to develop for career and future readiness. Organized by expanding spheres of impact with student-centered language and concrete example behaviors at every level. Translates national standards like NACE Career Readiness Competencies into practical language students can understand, practice, and apply — connecting academic experiences to career readiness and civic engagement.

Available for non-commercial use in institutions of higher education. Request institutional access to receive this resource.

Best For

Creating shared language for transferable skills across contexts
Making competency growth visible through concrete behaviors
Connecting academic learning to career readiness
Aligning with NACE, AAC&U, and other national frameworks
Designing and assessing authentic, skill-aligned learning experiences

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